DFJ

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Szymborska, Wislawa Born 1923. Polish poet noted for her metaphysical and witty poems concerning daily life and her many translations of French poetry into Polish. She won the 1996 Nobel Prize for literature.

With the adoption of this blended approach of doing early- to late-stage deals, DFJ joins the likes of investment firms Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners and Accel Partners, who write both small and large checks.

In countries such as Brazil, Israel, Russia, the U.K. and Vietnam, DFJ has global networks of partner funds, which don't get their capital from DFJ U.S. The capital is raised in those geographies by their autonomous teams, leveraging the DFJ network and reach.

DFJ Growth Fund, a partner fund that focuses on growth-stage deals in the US, has started looking for a pipeline in India and has come across at least two to three technology companies with an average annual revenue of more than $10 million, the investment threshold for DFJ Growth, said Mohanjit Jolly, managing director at DFJ India.

DFJ Growth has invested in firms such as AdMob now AdMob Google Inc. after being acquired by Google in 2009, Baidu Inc. and Skype Ltd. Focused on technology, including digital media and advertising, clean tech and convergent life-science technologies, it invests in the range of $10 million to $20 million.